Jumper, a leading onchain asset aggregation platform, is spinning out from its parent company LI.FI to operate as an independent consumer-focused venture. Alongside the transition, Jumper announced plans to launch its first-ever capital raise via a JUMP token sale on the fundraising platform Legion. The move marks a strategic shift for the platform, which has processed over $40 billion in lifetime volume and currently serves more than 100,000 monthly active users.
According to a press release published on Yellow.com, the spin-off is designed to separate the consumer-facing application layer from the underlying infrastructure stack. While LI.FI will continue to develop and maintain its orchestration infrastructure, Jumper will operate as a standalone consumer application with its own dedicated capital, leadership team, and product roadmap.
The Spin-Off: Decoupling Consumer and Infrastructure Layers
Originally incubated within LI.FI, Jumper’s separation represents a clear division of labor between infrastructure and user-facing products. LI.FI will remain focused on building the underlying orchestration layer that enables cross-chain communication, while Jumper will aggressively pursue the consumer market.
“Bridging was the starting point for Jumper, and we’ve grown into the #1 aggregator by bridging volume with more than 15% market share,” said Marko Jurina, CEO of Jumper. “As more financial assets move onchain, the opportunity gets much bigger than bridging. We want Jumper to become the application users open whenever they want to trade, invest, or move value onchain.”
By establishing Jumper as an independent entity, both companies aim to optimize their respective roadmaps without the friction of competing internal priorities. Jumper’s leadership believes this autonomy is necessary to capture the rapidly growing market for decentralized financial consumer portals.
The JUMP Token: Aligning Users and Investors Without Equity
The upcoming Legion sale represents the first time Jumper has raised external capital. In a departure from typical web3 fundraising structures—where projects often raise equity from venture capitalists while issuing tokens to retail users—Jumper is pursuing a token-only model. There will be no separate equity financing round.
“We believe the token should be the only way to have ownership and exposure to the value being created by Jumper,” Jurina explained. “There shouldn’t be one group holding equity and another group holding a token. JUMP is intended to be the only way users, contributors, and investors participate in Jumper’s growth.”
Jurina noted that this model deliberately pushes against incumbent industry processes that treat tokens as speculative instruments disconnected from the underlying business. By aligning all stakeholders under a single asset class, Jumper hopes to establish a new industry standard for token-first ownership.
Expanding the Onchain Super-App Ecosystem
The proceeds from the JUMP token sale will be deployed directly into product development, user acquisition, and distribution. Jumper’s long-term goal is to transition from a cross-chain bridge aggregator into a comprehensive “super-app” for onchain finance.
The platform’s next major milestone is the launch of Jumper Perps, an aggregator for perpetual futures venues designed to consolidate various trading interfaces into a single user experience. Jumper Perps is scheduled to go live in the coming weeks.
Beyond perpetuals, Jumper plans to integrate tokenized stocks, real-world assets (RWAs), and yield-generating opportunities. By aggregating these diverse asset classes under one roof, Jumper aims to abstract away the underlying complexity of multiple blockchains and protocols, providing a simplified, asset-centric trading experience for its 100,000 monthly active users.
The transition comes at a time of intense competition among decentralized aggregators. As liquidity remains fragmented across dozens of Layer-1 and Layer-2 blockchains, platforms that can efficiently route trades and bridges have become critical infrastructure. Jumper’s 15% market share in bridging volume has been built on its ability to aggregate multiple liquidity paths, but as bridging fees compress, expanding into high-margin services like perpetual futures and tokenized real-world assets is a logical evolutionary step.
The decision to launch the token sale on Legion, a platform known for decentralized and public fundraising, emphasizes Jumper’s focus on community-first distribution. While the exact date and terms of the JUMP token sale have not yet been finalized, the team confirmed that the token launch itself will occur separately following the completion of the fundraising campaign.